nativity play

[gina32]

whats all this about not putting on the traditional nativity play because of offence to other religions, whats a loads of rubbish

[excelsior]

agreed ... this is taking 'pc' a bit far. we've had nativity plays in this country for decades!

[gina32]

we dont see ramadam and the like cancelled do we, is this not britain??

[4GS]

do you have a link to this gina?

[Booldawg]

I'm sure stories like this have cropped up every Christmas for the last 15 years or so.

I thought the idea of a multi-cultural society was to embrace other cultures/religions and have empathy for them.

[jake-the-peg]

We've been through this in another thread.

It's not other religions, I'm an athiest and I take offence at having children have religous fairy stories in school!

Simple answer

If you go to church (which I doubt) put them on there

If you don't stop whining

[gina32]

nativity is a part of christmas that goes back a long long time, for goodness sake as excelsior says, the pc brigade are taking this to far

[gina32]

i went to a c of e school and used to like things such as this, "when in rome" springs to mind, why should we change an age old tradition.

[jake-the-peg]

Christianity stole a much older tradition of mid winter festivals and feasting.

Remind me what part mistletoe has in Christianity!

As for when in Rome 5% of this country go to church - you're the ones "In Rome"

[Booldawg]

TBH I'm not too fussed - I was always the donkey or sheep. The nativity play is an excellent way of pigeon holing kids at a very early age into their value in society. But then again the same could be said about any school production.

[gina32]

your dont have to go to church to be religious do you.

[gina32]

jake i dont know if you have any school age children but if you dont like the way they are taught, i.e nativity plays dont let them be part of it, when my daughter was at school their was a jehovahs witness ther and she didnt used to attend the assembly, dont like it dont do it!!

[4GS]

Going to church is a public display of your faith.
I go twice a month, depends on what I'm up to later that day, that doesn't make me any less a Christian than someone who goes once a day, or any more a Christian than someone who never goes, so the 'you need to be a churchgoer in order to be a Christian' analogy doesn't really count does it?

[jake-the-peg]

I think it does.

The point is you go regularly to church - 95% of the country does not.

The church is now somewhere where the vast majority of people only go for weddings baptisms and fulnerals.

Yet strangely they call themselves "Christians" in a vague racial manner.

Ask them if they pray - they'll look at you in an embarassed way and change the subject.

Yet they all want their little darlings to be the angel Gabriel in the Nativity play.

It's just mindless attachment to tradition for the sake of it.

[gina32]

and thats what i said as well

[jake-the-peg]

Whatever,

In any case you can stop blaming the muslims it's more likley people like me kicking up down at the local primary school.

[naomi24]

Jake, 'You're the ones in Rome.' That's a sad statement and probably sums up the demise of Christmas well. I don't go to Church, I'm not a 'Christian' in the strict sense of the word, but I like the tradition of Christmas (wherever it springs from). Christmas isn't being undermined by people of other religions - it's being undermined by politically correct indiginous Brits who seem eager to embrace every culture's traditions but their own. In the process their attitude does the ethnic minorities no favours at all, since people tend to blame them instead of those who are actually culpable, and all it causes is resentment and racial tension. I don't believe Christmas offends people who are not Christian, but, sadly, it does appear to offend politically correct Brits who may feel they're fighting the cause of ethnic minorities, but who are, in actual fact, doing a great deal of harm to community relations.

[naomi24]

Jake Our posts crossed - but yes, it is more likely to be you kicking up at the local primary school - that's precisely what I meant - but still the Muslims will be blamed.

[sp1814]

gina32

This is a wind-up post isn't it?

Seriously, come clean. Are you just having a bit of Friday fun?

[4GS]

Jake?
Who blamed the Muslims? I havn't seen any blame put on them on this thread

[Gromit]

This was done yesterday

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Society-and-Cul ture/Question490973.html